Shoshana's Garden

Chanukah... A JOYOUS celebration. One that is festive and filled with food and candles and games. And yet, just as it is all beginning,...

I was pondering what to write on today, and I opened my Shabbat Prayer book and saw this prayer: LEND US THE WIT, O God, to speak the...

I love the freedom to pray as I wish. Crying out in the car as I drive. Tears as I walk to relieve stress. There are many ways that our...

A simple prayer for Shabbat... WHERE HAS this week vanished? Is it lost for ever? Will I ever recover anything from it? The joy of life,...

Proverbs 25:28 Like a city breached, without walls, is a person who lacks self-control. If we lack self-control we allow our body, "city"...

Kind of a generic title and yet, that's how I feel right now. Life is filled with stuff... What a week. More emotions that were...

What is a soul? The dictionary defines it as: "the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal." I am...

And yet, my heart aches. Today I am thankful for friends who drive long distances for a 24 hour period of time together just because we...

I missed a holiday... I missed Yom Kippur this year. Somehow when I looked up the date I thought it started the evening of the 5th. Well,...

As we enter the High Holy Days, we just celebrated Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur begins this Wednesday evening, I often hear that we do...